School Snack Save
Posted by: annaholler on November 10th, 2009
Like most parents with school aged kids, I’m responsible for sending my daughter to school with one healthy snack each day. At the beginning of the school year I sent her with carrots and celery, apples and peeled oranges. Soon she began asking for starchier snacks and I began packing small containers of popcorn, pretzels and crackers. I was shocked when my daughter came home one day and said, “Mommy, can you pack Sun Chips for my snack.” I told her that I didn’t think Sun Chips were appropriate but that I’d ask her teacher. My daughter said, “Weeeellllllllll… they’re not the kind of sun chips that they sell in the store. They’re different. I don’t know if you can buy them at the store. They look like the won tons at the chinese food restaraunt… but they’re yellow.”
From this, I deducted that my daughter was talking about nothing other than good, old fashioned, sodium, preservative and fat packed Frito Lay chips. I told my daughter that I was sure her teacher wouldn’t allow the children to eat Fritos for their snack. She promised me that the other children in the class had fritos and “blue water” at snack and begged me to get them for her.
The next day as I was leaving with my daughter, I asked her teacher if she was allowed to have Fritos at snack time. My thought was that she would say “no” and it would appear to my five-year-old that I had been willing to get and send her to school with a crap-for-you-but-nonetheless- delicous-treat. But I was foiled! Her teacher said something to the effect of, “not every day, but maybe every once in a awhile.” So, off to the market I went, head sunk into my cowel with defeat.
I bought one tiny snack bag of Fritos and sent them to school the next day in order to fullfill my end of the bargain.
Last week at the store I discovered that Pirates Booty comes in snack packs. When I brought them home my children went over the moon.
What I love the most about Pirates Booty is that it’s marketed like other bad-for you snack foods… without the bad-for-you! Being able to bring it to school in the snack bag is (for reasons only known to other five-year-olds) super-important to my daughter. These bags are the perfect solution to our snack problem.
May I never have to purchase another Frito Lay chip again.
